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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory 1942-1943 by Chil Rajchman Publisher Comments Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children,old men, beautiful girls. In the gas chambers of Treblinka,all are equal. The Nazis kept the fires of Treblinka burning night and day, a central cog in the wheel of the Final Solution. In the... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman Publisher Comments Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe by Martin (edt) Dean Publisher Comments This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays... (read more) Your price: $322.25 New - Hardcover
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D Sarna Publisher Comments A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Judaism: A History by Jonathan D Sarna Publisher Comments This magisterial work chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era through the present day, Jonathan Sarna explores the ways in which Judaism adapted in this new context.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction by George A Kennedy Publisher Comments Comparative Rhetoric is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression, composition, and communication. It begins with a theory of rhetoric as a form of mental and emotional energy which is transmitted... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People by John Loftus Publisher Comments A hugely controversial work that exposes a series of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal family, The Secret War Against the Jews reveals as much about political corruption inside Western intelligence as it does about Israel. Using thousands... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History) by Daniel Katz Publisher Comments Rape law reform has been a stunning failure. Defense lawyers persist in emphasizing victims' characters over defendants' behavior. Reform's goals of increasing rape report and conviction rates have generally not been achieved. In Rape and the Culture of... (read more) Your price: $46.75 New - Hardcover
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Jewish Life in the Middle Ages by Israel Abrahams Publisher Comments Highly readable social history comprehensively examines life of European Jews, from approximately the late 10th-century to the early 1500s. Topics include social functions of the synagogue, communal organizations, love, courtship and marriage, monogamy... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience by Jane S. Gerber Publisher Comments The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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Rituals of Childhood : Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe (96 Edition) by Ivan G. Marcus Publisher Comments As a piece of scholarship . . . Rituals of Childhood is impeccable. . . . As a piece of anthropological reconstruction it makes for compelling reading.-Haim Chertok, Jerusalem Post Literary Supplement An important work, both instructive and entertaining.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky Publisher Comments The man who spearheaded what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history" recounts his poignant, intrepid, and often riotous quest to safeguard a vanishing civilization.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger Publisher Comments True story from the major motion picture "In Darkness," official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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On Modern Jewish Politics (93 Edition) by Ezra Mendelsohn Publisher Comments In this book Ezra Mendelsohn presents a concise guide to the complexities of modern diaspora Jewish politics. He divides the various Jewish political parties and organizations into a number of schools or 'camps, ' provides a geography of Jewish politics,... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jews: The Making of a Diaspora People by Irving M. Zeitlin Publisher Comments This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively to the early history of the Jews as they began settling in scattered colonies outside of Israel-Judea during the time of the... (read more) Your price: $69.95 New - Hardcover
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Inventions of the Jewish People (10 Edition) by Shlomo Sand Publisher Comments A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred by Paul Reitter Publisher Comments Today, the term Jewish self-hatred often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Nine Questions People Ask about Judaism by Dennis Prager Publisher Comments If you have ever wondered what being born Jewish should mean to you; if you want to find out more about the nature of Judaism, or explain it to a friend; if you are thinking about how Judaism can connect with the rest of your life -- this is the first... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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